Vardaan Group on Solar's Present Status

As a result of the efforts made during the past quarter century, a number of devices have been developed and have become commercially viable. These include Solar Water Heaters, Solar Cookers, Solar Lanterns, Solar Street Lights, Solar Water Pumps.

India has started wide Solar Photovoltaic Program for about 2 decades and has installed an aggregate 1.3 million systems. However, now the focus of the 11th year plan is on the grid connected power generation. India's Integrated Rural Energy Program using Solar energy had served 300 districts and around 2,300 villages.

The production during 2007-08 (till December 2007) is estimated to be over 40 MWp of Solar cells and 60 MWp of PV modules.

Growth in Indian PV
Production

Source	Capacity
Solar Street Lightning Systems	70,474 nos
Home Lightning System	4,34,692 nos
Solar Lanterns	6,97,419 nos
Solar PV Power Plants	8.01 MWp
Soar Water Heating Systems	2.45 Mn Sq mt of collector area
Box Type Solar cookers	6.37 lakhs
Solar PV Pumps	7,148 nos

as on 31st October
2008 by MNRE